Comments on: Cutting Medicaid payments

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:19:00 +0000

Well I don’t think any doctor ever sees anybody in a nursing home. So 7.00 sounds pretty good when you aren’t actually going there, just documenting that you are.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:58:00 +0000

For seven bucks, why do you bother? Why does anyone? You can’t cover travel for that.

…….suddenly feeling rich as Croesus with my twenty-nine bucks……

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:52:00 +0000

seeing a medicaid patient in NY, in a nursing home, reimburses $7.

That's right, SEVEN BUCKS.

That's right, in 2008, seven dollars.

That's for someone who had a hemorrhagic stroke, now with peg feeds, trach care, ten meds, & twenty nursing orders.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:00 +0000

Just got a Medicaid payment for hospital care on a Medicaid patient.

My fees are set by our best-paying insurance. The hospital care on this certain day was $165.

So the better private insurances would have paid that. Not-so-good insurances, ten or twenty less.

Our Medicaid paid $29

Twenty-nine dollars. That's what they allowed.

And you wonder why docs don't sign up. I tell patients, frankly anybody who asks. If I opened my practice to Medicaid I'd go bankrupt.

Even if I worked for free, I would not be able to pay the rent, utilities and pay staff on Medicaid payment.

By: Dr. Val

Dr. Val — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:22:00 +0000

Well, I suppose if people die sooner due to lack of care it might save money. Maybe that’s what the wonks were thinking?